1. Building Regional Collaboration in Europe
Open Days synergies workshop
Pieter de Jong
EU Representative Wetsus/ WaterCampus
ERRIN, Vice Chair & Water WG Coordinator
EIP Water, AG FINNOWATER Coordinator
WssTP, WG Resource Recovery Coordinator

2. “From Rust Belt to Brain belt: Can Former Industrial Cities…

3. Turn into Future Innovation Hubs?
“From Rust Belt to Brain belt: Can Former Industrial Cities…
Turn into Future Innovation Hubs?

7. ERRIN Working Groups 2016 Energy & Climate Change
Bio-economy/ Food & Agri
Health
Water / Process Industry
Transport
Smart Cities
Tourism
Advanced manufacturing/ Nano
Blue Growth
Design & Creativity
ICT
Policy / RIS3

8. Seal of Excellence
(CoESET) Center of Excellence for Smart Engineering Technologies
Score: 12.00
(Threshold: 10.00)
2017: EFRO-call for Teaming-project

9. Project Fenix A new plan for growth in Europe
Cross-sectorial RIS3 cooperation
Long-term High-Trust Cooperation
Education, research and innovation

10. Wetsus: Connecting EU universities & global companies

11. Connecting with European regions
Realised
Minho (PT)
Riga (LV)
Zagreb (HR)
Nord-Est (RO)
Budapest (HU)
Foreseen
Slovenia (SI)
Southern-Moravia (CZ)
Lodzkie (PL)
Lithuania (LT)
Estonia (EE)
Crete (GR)
Murcia (ES)
Puglia (IT)

12. Cross-Overs Water Technology Food Beve-rages Textiles Oil & Gass
Pulp & Paper
Che-mistry
Mining
Agri-culture
Cera-mics

13. Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence

14. Building strategic long-term cooperation
Wetsus Congress

15. National and regional funding
Funding Synergies
COSME
H2020
Private funding
National and regional funding
ESIF

16. Knowledge Triangle Integrated into RIS3
Future Growth
Education
Research
Innovation
Start-ups
Environmental Challenge